• Flying Squid
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    224 months ago

    The station was slated to get public funding to the tune of 3.95 million Swiss francs

    TIL Liechtenstein is so small that they don’t even bother having their own money.

    I mean I knew it was small, but that’s small. Even Malta had its own version of the lira before it switched to the euro.

    • SkaveRat
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      174 months ago

      it has a population of 40k people. There are small towns with more population

      • Flying Squid
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        104 months ago

        Including the one I live in. Terre Haute, Indiana. Population: ~60k.

        And we are not considered to be some great metropolis. You can drive from one side to the other in maybe 45 minutes if traffic is good.

        • @[email protected]
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          134 months ago

          It’s crazy to me that you need 45 minutes for a city of that size. In Germany you probably need 20-30 minutes depending on traffic.

          • Flying Squid
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            84 months ago

            There’s a lot of stoplights.

          • @[email protected]
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            4 months ago

            Us Americans can’t seem to get the hang of a simple roundabout, so we’ve got that super efficient stop-and-go traffic.

            • @[email protected]
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              64 months ago

              Roundabouts would help for sure, but the area sizes of American cities are just much higher as well and therefore the population density is smaller.

              • @[email protected]
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                24 months ago

                True. I’d wager a decent chunk of that urban sprawl is due to our massive parking lots.

        • DominusOfMegadeus
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          54 months ago

          I lived in Rhode Island for the last 8 years. That sounds like forever. I should be out of the state in 45 minutes.

        • @_wizard
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          54 months ago

          Small world! Used to go to Pioneer Days when I was a little shit.

          • Flying Squid
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            44 months ago

            Smaller world than you think. My wife does pioneer days every year (and also the weekends when the village is open), either showing off the school room or the room with the spinning wheels and looms- she knows all about that stuff and is very talented at it.

      • @Deway
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        14 months ago

        But Luxembourg did have its own coins and banknotes.